Prominent Iranian artist Darroudi dies at 85

Iran Darroudi, well-known Iranian painter, film director, art critic and university professor, died of cardiac arrest at the age of 85 in Tehran.

Darrudi was an influential artist who had been active for more than 50 years in Iranian contemporary art. Her achievements include more than 60 individual exhibitions, art critiques published in various journals, and some 80 collaborative documentaries, the last one being an autobiography, “Distance Between Two Dots”.

A selection of her paintings: Iran Darroudi (toosfoundation.com)